This sounds
untrue at best. There are several reasons but among them,
no captain worth his salt is going to let his boat be towed back to
dock unless all the engines have disappeared.
Don't bother arguing with these
people. They really want to believe
only very incomplete version of the story as told by CNN and the news
networks, because it fits nicely into their anti-Windows religion.
They like to ignore things like official reports, retractions of
claims, and basic things like maritime engineering, the way captains
run their ships, and how engineering systems are developed in the
Navy.
Surely nobody who knows enough to install a system as described could
possibly be willing to do so!
OK, so it didn't happen?
But the false news reports were as well done as the moon landing!
NT4 claimed fully pre-emptive multi-tasking, but there were still
some things that an application program could do that would crash the OS.
BTW, what would a Navy captain do if he were ORDERED to do something that
he knows is wrong?